Newsletter -- Week Ending May 5, 2006

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Interop Is Alive:  Interop 2006 was far healthier than last year's N+I 2004 (the land of the living dead) but hardly a shadow of its dot com predecessor. Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay is a pretty pleasant venue with lots of restaurants and hotels nearby, and close to the airport.  For us Interop is always a great place to meet with diverse companies as well as to attend Cisco's traditional annual analyst dinner.  The booth traffic flow looked pretty healthy for the first couple of days while we were there and companies said that they had real potential customers (not just other vendors out sniffing the competition). Now if they just renamed it Interop 2.0 it would really sizzle don't you think?

New Report -- Endpoint Security and Network Admission Control -- Market Size and Vendor Profiles -- We've had so much interest in our most recent report on Network Admission Control that we followed it up with another revision profiling the vendors in the space, along with our market sizing estimates.    This revision tracks 34 vendors providing solutions into this market.  If you're interested -- jkatsaros@irg-intl.com

New Report in the Works -- We're finishing up our in depth look at the Content Inspection market (sometimes called the Outbound market).  There are already 25 vendors in this hot new space focusing on inspecting traffic headed outside of an enterprise to alert (and in some cases actually block) based on preset corporate policies.  If your company is working in this area let us know -- we don't want to miss anyone -- jkatsaros@irg-intl.com.

Microsoft Management Summit and Idiot Analysts:  Microsoft held an analyst summit in conjunction with the Microsoft Management Summit a couple of weeks ago in San Diego. It was a great chance to mingle with and listen to the senior management team in the company of a small number of other analysts.  The meeting confirmed our view that Microsoft has a very strong and differentiated long term management strategy for the Windows part of an enterprise's IT fabric.  At the core there is a formal modeling language (SDM) that is integrated into software and application development tools and then feeds up into SMS -- the provisioning and patching tool -- and MOM -- the management tool. As we surmised virtualization plays a key role.  Which leads to the second topic: usually it's John who can't resisting taking a shot at trying to uplift the quality of our analyst profession but here I have to join him. Microsoft's strategy here is different from everyone else's strategy simply because only Microsoft can change platform and tool offerings in this way. So any overarching analyst framework is likely to show Microsoft's offering as weak because it doesn't fit within an analyst's encompassing model. That form of wrong thinking was abundant at this meeting -- smug looks from analysts who couldn't believe how stupid Microsoft is because their strategy doesn't fit the official published model (isn't Microsoft paying attention!!!). One analyst derailed the whole meeting for 20 minutes arguing that Microsoft's definition of virtualization was wrong. Lord save us all.

Direct from Dayton:  When is the last time you heard much of interest from the putative caching leaders of yesterday? We thought so!  Our friends at Stratacache continue on their plan for caching world domination from their Ohio intergalactic headquarters.  First they announced integration of OmniCast with Microsoft SMS -- the software and patch distribution tool.  As Vista grows closer to manufacturing release, and given that the enhanced security and manageability of Vista provides some compelling reasons to upgrade sooner rather than later, attention is now being paid to some of those snarly little details like the fact that a Vista upgrade is multiple CD images. For a big company to distribute Vista upgrade images one at a time would single-handedly restore the big network providers to profitability!  It turns out that Stratacache's intelligent multicast offering makes a big difference to the practically and cost of a Vista upgrade that Redmond and their customers find pretty exciting. And then for something entirely different, Stratacache introduced a different variant for the management and distribution of advertising driven content to big retail and banking chains. WalMart -- the king of retail -- has apparently realized that it's a lot cheaper to put big plasma displays into stores with compelling HD content than it would be actually upgrade or upscale the stores, and to most of their buyers the TV part of the experience is probably more real anyway!  We're seeing fancy point-of-sale video going into retail and banks around here, and Stratacache clearly understands that it's one thing to put a new cash register system in and something else entirely different to manage all the content needed to get the most return from those displays.

Cisco and the God Box:  Cisco introduced ACE -- a very-high speed, multi function data center accelerator (initially in a Catalyst blade form factor) -- the first salvo in their program to sink F5. (We're sure they wouldn't state it exactly like that!)  ACE is an interesting mix of apples and oranges.  The blades are capable of 4 Gbps operation and you can fit four of them. That's a formidable technical accomplishment and would be a substantial competitive barrier presuming that there is actually a need for that level of performance. Given that few interesting commercial applications can generate 10 MBits/sec of traffic that's not clear to us at least.  And then because this is integrated into the packet forwarding path of the switch, Cisco can do all these functions while only cracking the packet open once. This is obviously the right way to do it (all things being equal) but if the same processing is done on a GigE LAN the latency of one packet isn't very much (you do the math) even if you process the packets more than once. The final part of ACE is much more exciting.  Cisco has created what seems to be a really elegant virtual management system that enables (a) portioning the device into 250 virtual devices and managing each independently and (b) assigning different administrative roles so that the security and network admins (and others) can work concurrently on independent aspects of the offering without stepping on each others' toes. These are the same applications that Nexsi and Inkra discovered in their "God box" dot com ventures. We've always believed that these are valuable applications. We've never been sure that building hardware was an important part of the solution. Fortunately for Cisco they have some advantages that Nexsi and Inkra didn't.

Missing One Thing -- Last week Symantec held its annual user meeting which it unfortunately called "Vision 2006" since "vision" was the biggest thing that was lacking.   While the stage lighting for this conference was spectacular, the best we've ever experienced for this sort of event, the part about where Symantec is heading in the future was absent.  John Thompson was at his evangelical best -- "We'll follow you anywhere even though we have no idea what you really said."  It has been harder than hoped to find the product synergy between Veritas and Symantec with the exception of the integration of KVS mail compliance and archiving system (which had been only recently acquired by Veritas before it merged with Symantec).  The biggest thing on Symantec's plate is trying to paint all of the acquisitions -- Veritas, Sygate, Bindview, Whole Security, BrightMail and a few more --  Symantec yellow in order to fit them all together into a cohesive, customer driven strategy.  And that's hard to do.  When you drill down to the division level, you see a set of really interesting products that are being Symantecized from pre-acquisition packaging to fit into a broader product line but when you ask about things like partnerships and rubbing up against Microsoft and Cisco you generally hear things like "we'll deal with that later…"  Maybe it would be easier to say "we're the GE of the security and storage space" and just let each of the acquired entities duke it out on their own terms.  It's too soon to pass judgment on this effort -- they're certainly trying hard to make it work.  You can't help but like Symantec's chairman and CEO John Thompson and hope that he's got the vision of how this all fits together.  Who knows, maybe next year they'll share that vision with us worker bees.

For Every Action There's A Reaction -- Little did we know it when it happened in April, 2005 but Juniper's acquisition of Peribit and Redline set off the Domino Effect.  While we've been disappointed with Juniper's progress in this sector since these acquisitions, they certainly seem to have set off the restructuring of the WAN landscape.  Since then we've seen Cisco acquire FineGround, Citrix acquire NetScaler,  and F5 acquire Swan.  The action has continued in the past few days as Packeteer acquired Tacit and Expand acquired DiskSites.  And, as important as these acquisitions are, don't overlook Riverbed's filing of an S1 as an important step toward an upcoming IPO.  A successful IPO from Riverbed might signal another change in this market as it could open up the public markets as a reasonable exit strategy for successful WAN oriented startups.  It's only been a year and the WAN vendor landscape has dramatically changed.  As Yogi would say; "If the world were perfect it wouldn't be!"

Second Hand Spam Smoke:  The world of Spam is a never ending source of wonderful little details. We'll report next time on what happened to BlueSecurity -- the Spam prevention company that does "ethical retaliation" and apparently didn't spend quite enough attention to the "unethical" retaliation that they might get in response.  Pat Peterson who heads development at IronPort gave an interesting paper at the Microsoft mail meeting in Chicago where he pointed at a phenomenon that we've coined Spam "Second Hand Smoke." Microsoft and Cisco are promoting complementary forms of mail authentication. Microsoft's SenderID makes it clear whether or not incoming mail was sent from an appropriate server. Cisco (and Yahoo!'s) DKIM makes it clear whether or not a message was created by the sender. Pat's point was to emphasize how this can improve Spam in indirect ways. A common Spammer trick is to create a phony sender string in a mail message so that it really looks like it came from (for example EBay). If a piece of Spam is sent claiming to be from EBay and then rejected by the recipient because (for example) the recipient user doesn't exist then this can result in a "bounce" message being sent back to EBay causing EBay to have to ingest huge volumes of the Second Hand Spam Smoke (catchy phrase don't you think!). Pat's point is that you add authentication processing and you can tell that EBay didn't really send the message then you can keep from polluting the email atmosphere by not sending the bounce. It just goes to show how complicated this email stuff really is!

Getting that money out of Nigeria:  Speaking of Spam, We're sure you're all familiar with the endlessly evolving Nigerian email scam, and wonder (a) who could possibly fall for such a ploy and (b) what would happen if you ever responded to one of these notes.  For a horrifying glimpse into this very significant con business see the fascinating recent New Yorker article http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060515fa_fact .

Citrix Grabs Another: Citrix added to its rapidly growing application acceleration portfolio with the acquisition of Reflectent Software a small company with very interesting end-to-end performance monitoring capability (reminiscent of where Vital Signs Software wanted to go so many years ago now).  Reflectent has been successful in very demanding markets (e.g. the performance of traders' applications) and adds valuable capabilities to the Citrix portfolio. This strengthens our belief that Citrix will be one of the leading vendors in this important and growing area.

Oh no! A Productive P2P Application?  When P2P concepts burst onto the scene with the meteoric rise of Napster use a great deal of enthusiasm was created for these technologies unfortunately not matched by much understanding of the questionable system or economic aspects.  For the years that have followed we have consistently responded to new P2P ideas with a very sincere, "Who cares?" (Why is this a good business idea?) We're not sure if we heard a single good idea until last week when Andrew Parker the CTO of CacheLogic came by to chat in person.  CacheLogic is well known for its data on P2P use, and for the interesting mitigation solutions (caches) they sell network service providers. As the small market for P2P caches saturates CacheLogic is turning its attention to adjacent new markets and has been talking to people like the BBC who want to use P2P to distribute video.  Although the heart of these solutions looks a lot more like content distribution than it does P2P, P2P actually contributes to an effective solution that saves money overall. It's clever. We've seen everything now including a good use for P2P!

Nortel Finally Gets Adult Supervision:  After 6 months on the job the new Nortel President and CEO Mike Zafirovski held an analyst call to talk about the game plan going forward. Nortel benefited from the optical boom more than anyone and the post bubble fall has been agonizing to watch not the least of which being the stream of weak executives talking about the plan to turn things around while the cash bleeds away. Zafirovsky actually sounds like a very competent leader in the style of what Mark Hurd is doing at HP (understand and fix the fundamentals).We guess the only question is whether there is enough room to turn before the boat hits the iceberg and sinks.

By Any Other Name -- Last week Microsoft lifted the covers off of the name of its next iteration of its Exchange server product offering which had been informally known under the code name of E-12.  The new name -- Exchange 2007 -- is a bit of a letdown.  They probably had their naming gurus working nights to think that one up.  E-12 at least sounds like something coming out of the pharma industry.  Rumors are that for the next version of Exchange they'll skip 13 and go right to E-14.  Now that's a name! 

Funding News -- Ten new infrastructure related investments attracted slightly over $125M in venture funding.

Quarterly Reports  -- Internap Network Services Corporation, performance-based routing services for IP networks reported financial results for the Q1 ended March 31, 2006 with revenues totaled $42.6M, an increase of 12.6% compared to Q1 2005.  Net income for Q1 2006, was $0.5M, or $0.00 per diluted share, which includes a charge for non-cash stock-based compensation expense of $1.5M.

Keynote Systems, Internet Performance Authority, Q2 fiscal year 2006, which ended March 31, 2006. Total revenue for the quarter was $12.7M. Subscription services revenue increased to $9.9M, up 3% compared to the Q2 of 2005, reflecting an increased demand for transaction, broadband and mobile monitoring services and a reduction in single-page and single-device Internet monitoring services. Professional services revenue was $2.8M, a 21% decrease compared to the quarter a year ago, primarily due to a reduction of CEM engagements. For Q2 of fiscal year 2006, the net loss was $58,000, which included $812,000 in stock-based compensation expenses. For the Q2  of fiscal year 2005, the net income was $1.0M, or $0.05 per share.

Openwave Systems, open software products and services for the communications industry, reported revenues for Q3 fiscal year ended March 31, 2006 were $113.0M, an increase of $6.7M, or 6%, from $106.3M during the March quarter in the preceding year, and an increase of $8.5M, or 8%, from $104.5M for the prior quarter ended December 31, 2005...more>

Entrust reported revenue for Q1 2006 was $21.1M, a decrease of 15% from $24.9M in Q1, 2005, and a decrease of 15% from $24.8M in Q4 2005. Product revenue for Q1 was $6.6M, a decrease of 18% from $8.1M in Q1, 2005, and a decrease of 27% from $9.1M in Q4, 2005.

Akamai Technologies, global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online, reported financial results for the Q1 ended March 31, 2006. Revenue for Q1 2006 was $90.8M, a 10% increase over Q4 2005 revenue of $82.7M, and a 51% increase over Q1 2005 revenue of $60.1M.

McAfee, announced that for Q1 ended March 31, 2006, consolidated net revenue was $272M. On a GAAP basis, McAfee's Q1 net earnings were $41M. Pro-forma operating margins for Q1 improved to 26.6% and GAAP operating margins were 18.5% for the quarter.

Mergers & Acquisitions -- Packeteer, WAN Application Optimization, signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Tacit Networks, providing complete branch office infrastructure solutions for organizations pursuing server, storage and resource consolidation to meet cost, security and regulatory compliance objectives.

Partnerships -- Covelight Systems, real-time identity-based monitoring of Web applications to detect fraud and identity theft, announced that CashEdge, online financial applications, has chosen Covelight Percept to augment its risk management solution for its online account opening and funding applications. Sapient is expanding its security and compliance services with Watchfire's AppScan Enterprise and WebXM software. ADTRAN, supplier of access routers, and Websense, global leader in web security and web filtering productivity software, integrated Websense Web Security Suite with ADTRAN NetVanta 3305, 4305, and 5305 routers. Massively Parallel Technologies (Massively), on-demand high-performance computing (HPC), partnered with Fulcrum Strategic Partners, US-based biometric consulting company. O2 announced an initiative to develop and trial a new generation of highly personalized, rich mobile messaging experiences in conjunction with Openwave Systems, open software products and services for the communications industry.  Lockdown Networks, Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, joined the program for Microsoft Network Access Protection technology.

Product News -- Foundry Networks, end-to-end switching and routing, introduced the NetIron XMR 32000 Internet and MPLS core router and the NetIron MLX-32 MPLS-enabled metro router and released IronView Network Manager Release 2.0 (INM R2.0) leveraging sFlow traffic monitoring, embedded in Foundry switches and routers, and open source security applications and tools, such as SNORT, to deliver highly scalable security and threat mitigation, without the cost of ancillary security sensors. MetaInfo, network infrastructure management solutions, announced SAFE DHCP Quarantine Framework, the latest version of its architecture for network access control. Radware, intelligent application delivery, has launched a solution to beat a new breed of threats terrifying IT managers globally. Incorporating technology from Radware's recent acquisition of V-Secure Technologies with its own expertise of integrated security technology, Radware has devised DefensePro 3.0, to block attacks while ensuring high performance for legitimate traffic. Stampede Technologies, enterprise acceleration solutions, released Stampede Application Acceleration Series, a family of solutions for accelerating and optimizing the performance of complex HTTP, SSL, AJAX and XML applications. MetaInfo, network and Internet Protocol address management solutions, has announced Meta IP version 5.7, a major upgrade to its market-leading product for IP address, DNS, and DHCP management. F-Secure announced the addition of F-Secure Service Platform for Gateways to its service portfolio for global availability. Internap Network Services Corporation, performance-based routing solutions over the Internet, launched its Application Assessment Service which ensures performance requirements of mission-critical applications are aligned with business priorities and underlying network capabilities.

Expand Networks, application acceleration solutions over the WAN, added to their Accelerator product family - the Accelerator 7940, features the largest storage capacity in the category - 3 Terabytes (six hot-swappable 500 GB drives) - with full RAID redundancy and dual power supplies. Juniper Networks, leveraging its core competencies in application acceleration and security, as well as its Enterprise Infranet framework, the company is delivering a comprehensive, pragmatic and systematic strategy for accelerating more applications, increasing reach and scalability, and leveraging visibility and reporting. In a related announcement, Juniper Networks introduced the latest release of the WX Central Management System^T to address the visibility and reporting requirements. Identity Engines, network-based identity management solutions, announced Ignition v3.0, comprehensive network access solution to include dynamic network session provisioning and integrated guest access management. Elemental Security, enterprise information security, announced a new approach to network access control (NAC) for enterprises, one that integrates access controls with a broad policy and risk management framework. Vernier Networks, provider of Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, announced the EdgeWall 8800 as the latest addition to its EdgeWall family of products. Apparent Networks Inc. unveiled a network performance system, AppCritical,that bridges the gap left by traditional network tools unable to keep pace with applications that are now dependent on the quality and consistency of the network. Coyote Point Systems unveiled its new enterprise-class Equalizer Series E550, the first server load balancing and application traffic management system in its class to integrate a best-of-breed feature set for Web application delivery -including HTTP compression, SSL acceleration, application firewall rulesets, and SNMP network management capabilities - in a 20-port Gigabitswitch configuration.

FaceTime Communications, solutions for securing and managing greynets such as instant messaging (IM), peer-to-peer (P2P), and spyware, released Greynet Enterprise Manager (GEM). GEM enables organizations to easily set and manage security policies, and obtain aggregated visibility of IM, P2P and spyware traffic across distributed enterprise environments. Multi-Tech Systems, data communications and telecommunications technology company, revamped its entire RouteFinder Internet security appliance line to the next generation of products. Changes include higher performance hardware, performance-enhancing features and the same software core providing commonality of user interfaces and capabilities across the whole product line.

Xirrus, Wi-Fi solutions for enterprise and campus environments, announced a multi-radio, multi-backhaul mesh functionality for its Wireless LAN Array family, Xirrus' Wireless LAN Array can create up to four independent 162Mbps wireless backhaul links by bonding three of its Integrated Access Points together for each link. Firetide, Inc., developer of wireless mesh networks announced a new line of HotPoint access points to complement the company's HotPort high performance mesh networks including indoor and outdoor models that can be used either as stand alone access points or can be connected to a Firetide HotPort mesh network for full integration. Foundry announces wireless products for voice and data mobility. Trapeze Networks, wireless LAN (WLAN) Mobility System, announced support for two new features in its latest release of Mobility System Software, enabling enterprises to provide guest access to their Wi-Fi networks while protecting network resources from viruses, worms and other forms of malware on unmanaged endpoint clients. WildPackets, advanced network analysis, launched a new product in the
OmniAnalysis Platform, WildPackets OmniSpectrum - a portable RF spectrum analyzer that runs in a standard Windows laptop PC and identifies the devices causing interference on a Wi-Fi network. AvantGo unveiled a series of new marketing and media mobile Web site channels from BMW, Entrepreneur.com, HP, GM, Mercedes-Benz, PC World, Toyota and Verizon that demonstrate the depth and reach that the service provides for marketers and advertisers looking to target a valuable trendsetter audience of over 7 million unique users. Motorola's MeshConnex networking technology will support the final 802.11s meshing standard being developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).

Customer Wins -- Arbor Networks, network security, announced that investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners has implemented Arbor Peakflow X, enabling unprecedented visibility of its internal network. The Belgian Ministry of the Flemish Government, administers all public works in Flanders, has selected and deployed Infoblox appliances, delivering nonstop domain name resolution (DNS), IP address assignment and management (DHCP and IPAM) services to help maintain 24x7 availability of the Ministry's essential network infrastructure. McAfee, security technology company, will start providing McAfee VirusScan Mobile for the W-ZERO3 new-generation mobile communication handset from Willcom, Inc., Tokyo, Japan. University Of Michigan has selected SSH Tectia to ensure secure system administration and to enable secure file transfers. NetQoS, performance management products and services, announced that NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer, the traffic analysis module of the NetQoS Performance Center, has been selected by QUALCOMM Incorporated. Wholesale Communications Group, wholesale supplier of communications services to the ISP market in Australia, selects Allot Communications' NetEnforcer Traffic Management product to ensure the highest quality of experience for its customers.

Executives On The Move -- Oblicore, service delivery management software and best practices, selected Jonathan McKay as chairman to its board of directors. Jim Modak joins Fidelis Security Systems, extrusion prevention, has joined the management team as Chief Financial Officer. BridgeHead Software, data lifecycle management, continues its UK sales growth plan with the recruitment of first-rate storage management sales team, Alec Packham and Paul Appleby.  They have been appointed as UK Sales Manager and UK Sales Engineer respectively. Protegrity Corporation, a leading provider of data security management solutions announced the appointment of Mike Howse as its Director of Sales for EMEA. Packeteer, WAN Application Optimization, hired Wayne M. Bergland as vice president of sales for the Americas and Bernard Girbal appointed vice president of sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

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Product News

Foundry Networks Introduced Powerful Internet And Metro Core Routers
Foundry Networks, end-to-end switching and routing, introduced the NetIron XMR 32000 Internet and MPLS core router and the NetIron MLX-32 MPLS-enabled metro router...more>

Foundry Networks' IronView Network Manager Release 2.0
Foundry Networks, end-to-end switching and routing, released IronView Network Manager Release 2.0 (INM R2.0)  leveraging sFlow traffic monitoring, embedded in Foundry switches and routers, and open source security applications and tools, such as SNORT, to deliver highly scalable security and threat mitigation, without the cost of ancillary security sensors...more>

New Network Access Control Architecture from MetaInfo
MetaInfo, network infrastructure management solutions, announced SAFE DHCP Quarantine Framework, the latest version of its architecture for network access control...more>

Xirrus announces boded multi-radio mesh backhaul and enhanced security
Xirrus, Wi-Fi solutions for enterprise and campus environments, announced a multi-radio, multi-backhaul mesh functionality for its Wireless LAN Array family, Xirrus' Wireless LAN Array can create up to four independent 162Mbps wireless backhaul links by bonding three of its Integrated Access Points together for each link...more>

FaceTime Announces Greynet Enterprise Manager
FaceTime Communications, solutions for securing and managing greynets such as instant messaging (IM), peer-to-peer (P2P), and spyware, released Greynet Enterprise Manager (GEM). GEM enables organizations to easily set and manage security policies, and obtain aggregated visibility of IM, P2P and spyware traffic across distributed enterprise environments...more>

Radware steps up defense against Denial of Service and Zero-Day attacks
Radware, intelligent application delivery, has launched a solution to beat a new breed of threats terrifying IT managers globally. Incorporating technology from Radware's recent acquisition of V-Secure Technologies with its own expertise of integrated security technology, Radware has devised DefensePro 3.0, to block attacks while ensuring high performance for legitimate traffic...more>

Multi-Tech Announces Revamped Internet Security Products
Multi-Tech Systems, data communications and telecommunications technology company, revamped its entire RouteFinder Internet security appliance line to the next generation of products. Changes include higher performance hardware, performance-enhancing features and the same software core providing commonality of user interfaces and capabilities across the whole product line...more>

Stampede Technologies Announces New Acceleration Family for Enterprise, Ajax and XML Applications
Stampede Technologies, enterprise acceleration solutions, released Stampede Application Acceleration Series, a family of solutions for accelerating and optimizing the performance of complex HTTP, SSL, AJAX and XML applications...more>

Meta IP 5.7 Introduced
MetaInfo, network and Internet Protocol address management solutions, has announced Meta IP version 5.7, a major upgrade to its market-leading product for IP address, DNS, and DHCP management...more>

F-Secure Announces Outsourced Gateway Security 4 Enterprises
F-Secure announced the addition of F-Secure  Service Platform for Gateways to its service portfolio for global availability...more>

Internap Bridges the Performance Gap Between Application and Network Layers
Internap Network Services Corporation, performance-based routing solutions over the Internet, launched its Application Assessment Service?, ensures
performance requirements of mission-critical applications are aligned with
business priorities and underlying network capabilities...more>

Firetide Announces Full-Featured Access Solution for Wireless Mesh Networks
Firetide, Inc., developer of wireless mesh networks announced a new line of HotPoint access points to complement the company's HotPort high performance mesh networks including indoor and outdoor models that can be used either as stand alone access points or can be connected to a Firetide HotPort mesh network for full integration...more>

Expand Networks Announces 3 Terrabyte WAN Accelerator
Expand Networks, application acceleration solutions over the WAN, added to their Accelerator product family - the Accelerator 7940, features the largest storage capacity in the category - 3 Terabytes (six hot-swappable 500 GB drives) - with full RAID redundancy and dual power supplies...more>

Juniper Networks Outlines Application Acceleration Strategy
Leveraging its core competencies in application acceleration and security, as well as its Enterprise Infranet framework, the company is delivering a comprehensive, pragmatic and systematic strategy for accelerating more applications, increasing reach and scalability, and leveraging visibility and reporting. In a related announcement, Juniper Networks introduced the latest release of the WX Central Management System^T to address the visibility and reporting requirements...more>

Identity Engines Delivers Advanced Identity- And Policy-Based Network Access Control
Identity Engines, network-based identity management solutions, announced Ignition v3.0, comprehensive network access solution to include dynamic network session provisioning and integrated guest access management...more>

Elemental Announces New Policy and Role-Based Approach to NAC
Elemental Security, enterprise information security, announced a new approach to network access control (NAC) for enterprises, one that integrates access controls with a broad policy and risk management framework...more>

Vernier Networks Unveils the 8800 - a next-gen NAC platform
Vernier Networks, provider of Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, announced the EdgeWall 8800 as the latest addition to its EdgeWall family of products...more>

Foundry Announces Wireless Products for Voice and Data Mobility
Apparent Networks Inc. unveiled a network performance system, AppCritical, that bridges the gap left by traditional network tools unable to keep pace with applications that are now dependent on the quality and consistency of the network...more>

Apparent Networks Redefines Network Monitoring
Apparent Networks Inc. unveiled a network performance system, AppCritical, that bridges the gap left by traditional network tools unable to keep pace with applications that are now dependent on the quality and consistency of the network...more>

Trapeze Secures Guest Access to WLANs
Trapeze Networks, wireless LAN (WLAN) Mobility System, announced support for two new features in its latest release of Mobility System Software, enabling enterprises to provide guest access to their Wi-Fi networks while protecting network resources from viruses, worms and other forms of malware on unmanaged endpoint clients...more>

WildPackets launches portable network analyzer
WildPackets, advanced network analysis, launched a new product in the
OmniAnalysis Platform, WildPackets OmniSpectrum - a portable RF spectrum analyzer that runs in a standard Windows laptop PC and identifies the devices causing interference on a Wi-Fi network...more>

Coyote Point Launches New Enterprise Products
Coyote Point Systems unveiled its new enterprise-class Equalizer Series E550, the first server load balancing and application traffic management system in its class to integrate a best-of-breed feature set for Web application delivery -including HTTP compression, SSL acceleration, application firewall rulesets, and SNMP network management capabilities - in a 20-port Gigabitswitch configuration...more>

Sybase iAnywhere's AvantGo Expands Mobile Web Channel Lineup
AvantGo unveiled a series of new marketing and media mobile Web site channels from BMW, Entrepreneur.com, HP, GM, Mercedes-Benz, PC World, Toyota and Verizon that demonstrate the depth and reach that the service provides for marketers and advertisers looking to target a valuable trendsetter audience of over 7 million unique users...more>

Motorola's MeshConnex Meets 802.11s Standard Draft
Motorola's MeshConnex networking technology will support the final 802.11s meshing standard being developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)...more>

Corporate News -- Funding News

Wavestream Closes $28M Funding
Wavestream Corporation, high-efficiency solid state power amplifiers, received $28M in funding from Oak Investment Partners, Anthern Venture Partners, Caltech, Holden Capital, ITU Partners, Shea Ventures, and Triquint Semiconductor...more>

FireEye raises $6.4M funding
FireEye Inc., network access control products, raised $6.4 million in first-round funding Norwest Venture Partners and Sequoia...more>

Meru Networks Secures $25 Million in New Funding
Meru Networks, wireless infrastructure for the All-Wireless Enterprise, closed a fourth round of funding, securing $25 million in financing from Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Clearstone Venture Partners, NeoCarta Ventures, BlueStream Ventures, JumpStartUp Ventures, Evercore Ventures and Nissho Electronics Corporation. This funding round brings the total investment in the company to approximately $68 million...more>

Flipt Announces $5 Million Series A
New mobile service provider flipt received $5 million in a Series A round led by Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates...more>

NeoAccel Receives Series A3 Investment Funding
NeoAccel, next-generation Internet security solutions, announced its Series A3 funding round of approximately $4 million led by Baring Private Equity Partners' India Fund (ING's former venture arm) and existing investors...more> 

BroadRamp Gets $5M in Funding
BroadRamp, Inc., content delivery platform for the Internet, secured $5M in venture capital funding from Venture Vest II, a division of the $4B Wafra Investment Advisory Group, and seven private investors...more>

Reconnex Receives $16 Million in Round C Financing
Reconnex, electronic risks, received $16 million in Round C financing from August Capital and existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Levensohn Venture Partners, and Outlook Ventures.  To date, the company has raised a total of $37 million in funding...more>

AppSecInc Secures $10M C Round of Funding
Application Security, (AppSecInc) announced a $10M strategic funding round led by Paladin Capital Group with Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, Kodiak Venture Partners and Early Stage Enterprises, LP...more>

Authentium Completes $15 Million Series A Financing
Authentium, extensible security software technologies and service platforms, completed a $15 million Series A financing led by Westbury Equity Partners and Safeguard Scientifics, Bahrain Middle East Bank, UOB Venture Management, Enspire Capital, Industrial & Financial Investments...more>

SunRocket Adds $12M Series B1 To Meet Demand
SunRocket Inc, Internet phone service provider, has raised about $12 million in insider Series B-1 according to VentureWire...more>

Quarterly Results

Internap Reports First Quarter 2006 Financial Results
Internap Network Services Corporation, performance-based routing services for IP networks reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31,
2006 with revenues totaled $42.6 million, an increase of 12.6% compared to the first quarter of 2005.  Net income for the first quarter of 2006, was $0.5 million, or $0.00 per diluted share, which includes a charge for non-cash stock-based compensation expense of $1.5 million...more>

Keynote Announces Q206 Financial Results
Keynote Systems, Internet Performance Authority, second quarter of fiscal year 2006, which ended March 31, 2006. Total revenue for the quarter was $12.7 M. Subscription services revenue increased to $9.9M, up 3% compared to the Q2 of 2005, reflecting an increased demand for transaction, broadband and mobile monitoring services and a reduction in single-page and single-device Internet monitoring services. Professional services revenue was $2.8M, a 21% decrease compared to the quarter a year ago, primarily due to a reduction of CEM engagements. For Q2 of fiscal year 2006, the net loss was $58,000, which included $812,000 in stock-based compensation expenses. For the Q2  of fiscal year 2005, the net income was $1.0M, or $0.05 per share...more>

Entrust Announces Q106 Financial Results
Entrust reported revenue for the first quarter was $21.1 million, a decrease of 15% from $24.9 million in Q1, 2005, and a decrease of 15% from $24.8 million in Q4, 2005. Product revenue for the first quarter was $6.6 million, a decrease of 18% from $8.1 million in Q1, 2005, and a decrease of 27% from $9.1 million in Q4, 2005...more>

Openwave Reports Solid Third Quarter Revenue and Earnings in Line With Projections
Openwave Systems, open software products and services for the communications industry, reported revenues for its third fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2006 were $113.0 million, an increase of $6.7 million, or 6%, from $106.3 million during the March quarter in the preceding year, and an increase of $8.5 million, or 8%, from $104.5 million for the prior quarter ended December
31, 2005...more>

Akamai Reports Q1 2006 results
Akamai Technologies, global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online, reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2006. Revenue for first quarter 2006 was $90.8 million, a 10 percent increase over fourth quarter 2005 revenue of $82.7 million, and a 51 percent increase over first quarter 2005 revenue of $60.1 million...more>

McAfee, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2006 Revenue of $272 Million
McAfee, announced that for the first quarter ended March 31, 2006, consolidated net revenue was $272 million. On a GAAP basis, McAfee's first quarter net earnings were $41 million. Pro-forma operating margins for the first quarter improved to 26.6% and GAAP operating margins were 18.5% for the quarter...more>

Corporate News -- Mergers & Acquisitions

Packeteer to Acquire Leading Branch Office Infrastructure Company Tacit Networks
Packeteer, WAN Application Optimization, signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Tacit Networks, providing complete branch office infrastructure solutions for organizations pursuing server, storage and resource consolidation to meet cost, security and regulatory compliance objectives...more>

Corporate News -- Partnerships

Covelight Signs CashEdge
Covelight Systems, real-time identity-based monitoring of Web applications to detect fraud and identity theft, announced that CashEdge, online financial applications, has chosen Covelight Percept to augment its risk management solution for its online account opening and funding applications...more>

Sapient Teams With Watchfire
Sapient is expanding its security and compliance services with Watchfire's AppScan Enterprise and WebXM software...more>

New ADTRAN Operating System Integrates Websense Web Security Suite with NetVanta Routerst
ADTRAN, supplier of access routers, and Websense, global leader in web security and web filtering productivity software, integrated Websense Web Security Suite with ADTRAN NetVanta 3305, 4305, and 5305 routers...more>

MPT and Fulcrum Strategic Partners to Redefine Biometric Solution Performance, Scalability and Cost
Massively Parallel Technologies (Massively), on-demand high-performance computing (HPC), partnered with Fulcrum Strategic Partners, US-based biometric consulting company...more>

O2 and Openwave Simplify the Mobile Messaging Experience
O2 announced an initiative to develop and trial a new generation of highly personalized, rich mobile messaging experiences in conjunction with Openwave Systems, open software products and services for the communications industry...more>

Lockdown Networks Joins Microsoft's NAP Program
Lockdown Networks, Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, joined the program for Microsoft Network Access Protection technology...more>

Customer Wins

Thomas Weisel Partners Saves Time and Expense with Arbor Peakflow X
Arbor Networks, network security, announced that investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners has implemented Arbor Peakflow X, enabling unprecedented visibility of its internal network...more>

The Belgium Ministry of the Flemish Government Selects Infoblox Network Identity Appliances
The Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap (the Belgian Ministry of the Flemish Government), administers all public works in Flanders, has selected and deployed Infoblox appliances, delivering nonstop domain name resolution (DNS), IP address assignment and management (DHCP and IPAM) services to help maintain 24x7 availability of the Ministry's essential network infrastructure...more>

McAfee to Provide Security Solutions for Willcom W-ZERO Mobile Communications
McAfee, security technology company, will start providing McAfee VirusScan Mobile for the W-ZERO3 new-generation mobile communication handset from Willcom, Inc., Tokyo, Japan...more>

University Of Michigan Selects Ssh Tectia
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has selected SSH Tectia to ensure secure system administration and to enable secure file transfers...more>

NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer Technology to Monitor QUALCOMM Global Wide Area Network
NetQoS, performance management products and services, announced that NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer, the traffic analysis module of the NetQoS Performance Center, has been selected by QUALCOMM Incorporated...more>

Wholesale Communications Group Deploys Allot Communications NetEnforcer
Wholesale Communications Group, wholesale supplier of communications services to the ISP market in Australia, selects Allot Communications' NetEnforcer Traffic Management product to ensure the highest quality of experience for its customers...more>

Corporate News -- Executives on the Move

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